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Kigango

''Kigango'' (''plural'': ''vigango'') is a carved wooden memorial statue erected by the Mijikenda peoples of the southeastern Kenya coast. The ''vigango'', which can be stylized, abstracted human-form effigies and are placed vertically rising out of the earth, honor a dead member of the secret Gohu society, or the "Society of the Blessed".〔Reyman, Jonathan E., 2008, "The Long Journey Home of Kalume Mwakiru's''Vigango''", ''The Living Museum'' 69 (4): 3-7.〕
They were traditionally allowed to stand until they naturally decomposed, or they were abandoned and replaced at subsequent village locations by a second generation figure known as a ''kibao'' (''plural: vibao''), thereby transferring away whatever spiritual power was thought to remain from the original ''kigango''.〔Reyman, Jonathan E., 2008, "The Long Journey Home of Kalume Mwakiru's''Vigango''", ''The Living Museum'' 69 (4): 7.〕 This was a natural result of the Mijikenda's centuries old practice of slash and burn agriculture and, subsequently, the periodic changing of village locations.
The hard-wood ''kigango'' is approximately life-size and may have been painted. Numerous ''vigango'' are now in U.S. museums, although some were discovered to have been stolen and were returned to Kenya. However, ''vigango'' were openly and legally for sale from reputable art galleries and curio shops in Kenya from the early 1970s until at least the mid-1990s.〔(Cultural Survival )〕 Anthropologist Monica Udvardy of the University of Kentucky has been particularly active in writing about the theft of ''vigango'' and their repatriation from US and European museums.〔(Tony Waters (2007) at Ethnography.com )〕
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